Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1887-10-26
FORBIDDEN HONEY"
GOOD BOOKS AND BAD BOOKS.
STIMULATING LIQUIDS, TEMPTA.
TIONs DELICIOUS BUT DEATHFUL.

TIONS DELICIOUS BUT DEATHFUL
HONEY AT THE START, ETERNAL CA
TASTROPHE AT THE LAST.
DIR. TA1.MAaE's SERMON, SUNDAY, OCT. 16
BROOKLYN, October 16. -"Seven hundred
and eighty-one thousand, three hundred
and sixteen dollars and twenty -four cents
have been paid cash down in this church
for religious uses and Christian work dur
ing the nineteen years of my ministry
said the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D.,
in answer to the Misrepresentation that
have been going through some of the re.
ligious papers depreciating the work of the
Brooklyn tabernacle. After giving out the
hymn
Our God, our help in ages past.
Our hope for years to come"
DR.. Talmage preached sermon, the sub
ject of which was, Forbidden Honey" the
text being Samuel xiv, v. 43: 81 did
but taste little honey with the end of the
rod that was in my hand, and, 10, l musl
die." DR.. Talmage said:
The honey bee is a most ingenious archi.
tect, Christopher Wren among insects, q
geometer drawing hexagons and pentae ons,
a freebooter robbing the fields Of pollen aud
aroma a wondrous creature of God whose
biography, written by Huber, and Swan
merdam, is an enchantment for any lover
of nature. Virgil celebrated the bee in his
fable of Aristaeus, and Moses, and Samuel,
and David, and Solomon, and jeremiah,
aa& Ezekiel, and st. John used the delica-
cies OF bee-manufacture as Bible symbol.
Plenty of tlfis luscious product was hang
ing in the woods of Beth-aven during the
time of Saul and Jonathan. Their army
was in pursuit of an enemy that by God g
command must be exterminated, The sol
diery were positively forbidden to stop to
eat anything until the work was done. 1t
they disobeyed they were accursed. Com
ing through the woods they found a place
where the bees had been busy, a great
honey manufactory. Honey gathered in
the hollow of the trees until it had over
flowed upon the ground in great profusion
of su eetness. All the army obeyed orders
and touched it not, save Jonathan, and he,
not knowing the military order about absti-
nence, dipped the end of stick he had in
his hand into the candied liquid, and, as
yellow, and brown, and tempting it glowed
on the end of the stick, he put it to his
mouth and ate the honey. Judgment fell
upon him, and but for special Intervention
he would have been slain. In my text
Jonathan announces his awful mistake !:
81 did but taste little honey with the end
of the rod that was in my hand, and, 10, I
must die" Alas, what multitudes of peo-
pie in all ages have been damaged by for
bidden honey, by which I mean temptation
and attractive, but damaging
and destructive.
Literature fascinating but deathful comes
in this category. Where one good, honest,
healthful book is read now there are one
hundred made up of rhetorical trash con-
sumed with avidity. When the boy on the
cars comes through with pile of pubica-
tions look over the titles and notice that
nine out of ten of the. books are depicting
and injurious. All the wav from New
Y ork to Chicago or New Orleans notice
that Objectionable books dominate. Taste
for pure literature is poisoned by this scum
of the publishing house.
Corrupt literature is dong more today
for the disruption of domestic life than any
other cause. Elopements, marital intrigues,
sly correspondence, fictitious names given
1t postofice windows, clandestine meetings
n parks and at ferry gates, and in hotel
oaIlors, and conjueal perjuries are among
he damnable results. When woman,
young or old, gets ber head thoroughly
,tnffed with The modern noval, she is in ap-
palling peril.
Stimulating liquids also come into the
category of temptations delicious but death
'ul. You say 81 cannot bear the taste of
liquor, and how any man can
ike it is to me an amazement." Well,
hen, it is no credit to you that you do not
AXE it. Do not brag about your total ab-
,tinence, because it is not from any princi-
pie that you reject alcoholism, but for the
'ame reason that you reject certain styles
)f food-you simply don't like the taste of
hem. But multitudes of people have
natural fondpess for all kinds of intoxicants.
They like it SO much that it makes them
lyspeptic, and they take it to aid digestion,
or they are annoyed by insomnia, and they
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